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S3176 (ACTIVE) - Details

S3176 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements.

S3176 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

BILL NUMBER: S3176
SPONSOR: LANZA
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the
public service commission to require public utility companies to remove
or relocate utility poles upon the completion of public roadway improve-
ments
PURPOSE:
Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring
public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when
necessary for road improvement.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill amends section 5 of the public service law by
adding subdivision 7.

Section two is the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill would require the public service commission to create a time
clock of 90 days in which a utility is required to remove and/or relo-
cate poles after the local responsible government entity (county, city,
township) has declared a traffic improvement as completed and ready for
traffic.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2018: S.7972 - Referred to Energy & Telecommunications
2016: S.4349 - 3rd Reading Calendar
2015: S.4349 - Referred to Energy & Telecommunications
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
3176
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 4, 2019
___________
Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the
public service commission to require public utility companies to
remove or relocate utility poles upon the completion of public roadway
improvements
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 5 of the public service law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. THE COMMISSION SHALL ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS
REQUIRING EACH PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY, WHICH EXERCISES CONTROL OVER
UTILITY POLES, TO REMOVE OR RELOCATE ANY SUCH POLES AS SHALL BE DETER-
MINED TO BE NECESSARY BY THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF
IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR IMPROVEMENT OF ANY PUBLIC ROADWAY
BY THE STATE OR SUCH POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. SUCH UTILITY POLES SHALL BE
REMOVED OR RELOCATED, AS THE CASE MAY BE, WITHIN NINETY DAYS OF THE
RECEIPT BY THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY OF NOTICE, FROM THE STATE OR A
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, THAT THE PUBLIC ROADWAY HAS BEEN COMPLETED OR
IMPROVED.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09194-01-9

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